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Written by arclight on 2024-12-11 at 13:02

@jmc Every time I see someone represent currency values as a float, I have to stop myself from telling others that COBOL solved this problem in 1958.

Oh, and all those nice linear algebra routines in numpy, etc.? It's all FORTRAN underneath. Not only that, it's a FORTRAN translation of ALGOL60 code published in 1970.

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